{"id":91,"date":"2005-01-19T17:53:42","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T17:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2005\/01\/19\/an-18th-century-poster\/"},"modified":"2015-08-18T16:20:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T16:20:54","slug":"an-18th-century-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2005\/01\/19\/an-18th-century-poster\/","title":{"rendered":"an 18th century poster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bath Baroque advertises its concerts with posters in a pastiche 18th century style and I shall be singing in their next concert on Saturday, currently promoted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bathbaroque.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.bathbaroque.com\/', 'here');\">here<\/a>.  The billing for the Mexican carols is particularly entertaining.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMeanwhile, our conductor&#8217;s daughter was christened on Sunday and we performed much of Britten&#8217;s <i>Ceremony of Carols<\/i>, some in the original SSA version, some in the SATB arrangement.  I have been familiar with the first half of this for a long time, since it was an O-level set work for me.  The only previous time I performed it I sang 1st soprano and this must have imprinted strongly on my memory, as adjusting to singing 2nd in the closely written canons in a couple of the the carols proved quite tricky.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWe won a bottle of champagne in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldtours.co.nr\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.worldtours.co.nr\/', 'Christmas quiz');\">Christmas quiz<\/a> set by the Bristol Bach Choir. I was about to say that I&#8217;d no connexion with this choir, but I sang alongside them in the <a href=\"\/vhkssinging\/2004\/03\/25\/aimez-vous-brahms\/\">Brahms Requiem<\/a> in which they joined forces with the Chantry Singers.  I was also once on their waiting list for auditions for a year or so with no result! The quiz was largely general knowledge\/crossword-type clues but there was a musical theme to much of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bath Baroque advertises its concerts with posters in a pastiche 18th century style and I shall be singing in their next concert on Saturday, currently promoted here. The billing for the Mexican carols is particularly entertaining. Meanwhile, our conductor&#8217;s daughter &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2005\/01\/19\/an-18th-century-poster\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,20],"tags":[480,486,485,77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3433,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/3433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}